Your session lasted less than 10 seconds.If you did not make yourself a session, it may mean that there is a problem in the installation or there is not enough disk space. Try to enter one of the failsafe sessions to determine how to fix the problem.

Boot from rescue mode (in the GRUB boot menu you can select that; hold shift during boot to get the GRUB boot menu to show if not shown by default). Drop to the root console. Run the following two commands (one at a time) should hopefully fix this:

I realize this is an older post but I just experienced a similar problem with not being able to logon and the message "could not update .ICEauthority file".Of course, my immediate response was panic ...

Background:Using LMDE latest updates (UP5)./ and /home are on separate partitions.Problem arose when I installed a version of Puppy Linux on a different partition.

I'm not sure why or how it happened but immediately following the Puppy install I got the dreaded "could not update .ICEauthority file" message.I wasn't able to fix the problem from the LiveDVD but was able to fix it from the LMDE logon by going to the console there (as another user here suggests).In this case the problem was not with the .ICEauthority permissions (even though it appeared that way from the message) but (as noted below) with the "/home" folder permissions.

I got to the console (from logon screen) via Ctrl + Alt +F1 ... (Ctrl +Alt = F7 to return to logon after the fix)I noticed that I could not change to the /home/username folder or even to the /home folder so assumed that permissions were some how corrupted there.

timber wrote:I realize this is an older post but I just experienced a similar problem with not being able to logon and the message "could not update .ICEauthority file".Of course, my immediate response was panic ...

Background:Using LMDE latest updates (UP5)./ and /home are on separate partitions.Problem arose when I installed a version of Puppy Linux on a different partition.

I'm not sure why or how it happened but immediately following the Puppy install I got the dreaded "could not update .ICEauthority file" message.I wasn't able to fix the problem from the LiveDVD but was able to fix it from the LMDE logon by going to the console there (as another user here suggests).In this case the problem was not with the .ICEauthority permissions (even though it appeared that way from the message) but (as noted below) with the "/home" folder permissions.

I got to the console (from logon screen) via Ctrl + Alt +F1 ... (Ctrl +Alt = F7 to return to logon after the fix)I noticed that I could not change to the /home/username folder or even to the /home folder so assumed that permissions were some how corrupted there.

had the same exact issue & read this thread. all i needed to do was disable automatic login through 'sudo mdmsetup' , there was a checkbox which just needed to be unchecked. iceauthority error went away , thanks!!

galaxies wrote:had the same exact issue & read this thread. all i needed to do was disable automatic login through 'sudo mdmsetup' , there was a checkbox which just needed to be unchecked. iceauthority error went away , thanks!!

Same here! It seems to be Linux Mint 15 bug to do with "enable Automatic Login" option.When I disenable auto-login there isn't "ICEauthority file" error!! Enable auto-login and immediately the error "Could not update ICEauthority fiel" banner comes up on boot up. Click okay, click manually the username and enter the password -the login then is normal.But then, having to wait each time to enter the password and then wait for the system to load up is a real pain!Hope there is some cure -real soon! Till then let us disenable auto-login or revert to linuxmint 14!

xenopeek wrote:Boot from rescue mode (in the GRUB boot menu you can select that; hold shift during boot to get the GRUB boot menu to show if not shown by default). Drop to the root console. Run the following two commands (one at a time) should hopefully fix this:

The only thing I've done is I also enabled autologin. Now I cant get system working, after "ICEauthority" message there is one more, "The path for the directory containing caja settings need read and write permissions: /home/USER/.config/caja". After that, it gets stuck with linuxmint wallpaper and only keys that work are Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. So I simply cannot undo this setting, because I cannot login into system. How to disable autologin from the command line?